Various plotting issues

[krisgry]

Hi (@kmolima)!
I'm having some problems with plotting, both in the "IMC inspector" and in the real-time plot. My code is branched off of 0c23bde (I have not made any changes to the plotting).

Issues:

• IMC inspector: XY plot does not work (I'm never prompted with what I variables I would like to plot)
• IMC inspector: only plots the first variable when multiple are added
• real time plot: when opening the console, the saved plot config is on a single line. If I add line breaks, save console, close and reopen neptus, it is back on a single line.
• related to the above: I get a parsing errors (LHS of an assignment should be a variable) since everything is on one line. This error message opens up immediately after closing it, so it is difficult to get rid of without restarting Neptus (sometimes I manage to click out of it quickly, but then the Neptus menus are often not responding to clicks afterwards). It is not possible to edit the plotting script while the error message is showing.
• rtp: sometimes the plot does not update after changes have been made to the script (nothing is plotted, but the axes are updated when I click 'clear'). There are seemingly no relevant error messages, I'm sure the script is correct, and the incoming data is updating.

Also; when should xyseries be used, compared to addSeries?

[kmolima]

Hi @krisgry, regarding your last point, when you use addSeries you are adding a serie to an existed XY series plot (created by using xyseries method). I hope this could help you.

Please address to @paulosousadias for the remaining issues since I am no longer an active developer on the project (nor at LSTS).

cheers!

[krisgry]

@kmolima thanks for the quick feedback! I feel sorry for LSTS for losing you, but congratulations to you on starting at HVL :) (Bergen is actually close to my home town, at least in a global scale)

@paulosousadias in addition to the above, another question popped up: how to plot e.g. ExternalNavData.state.phi? (plotting values of inline messages)

[krisgry]

@paulosousadias the latter question here (plotting values of inline messages) has come back up, also plotting x/y values from a vector (the new message type suggested here). I have a message containing x and y which are both vectors (wavelength and intensity of a spectrum): how can I plot x vs y (and redraw entire plot for each new message)

[paulosousadias]

Hi @krisgry, this is indeed something that it is needed to be added, inline messages need to be reachable to plotting. It is on my list list to implement.

Regarding vector plotting just to get your view/need point. This should be plot all together or group by index (plot together all indexes e.g 1 for all messages group by entity?

[krisgry]

Regarding vector plotting just to get your view/need point. This should be plot all together or group by index (plot together all indexes e.g 1 for all messages group by entity?

my need/desire (in my message that contain a series of x and y values) would be to plot all x and y values for the most recent message/timestamp. When a new message arrives the plot is cleared and the new x vs y is plotted. Hope this makes sense